WE'RE BACK: The OC Returns // Hacking Drama Ends

We're none the wiser about who, what or how the OC was hacked or attacked as getting meaningful answers out of our friends at blogger isn't easy BUT they have performed miracles it seems and the OC is back in its traditional location, back in its alert and alarmed shade of green and back to normal.

There have been many emails, meebo messages, msn msgs, phone calls, sms's etc. of support so I thank everyone for those. In those messages though, two factions emerged. One who missed the bright green screen of freedom, the other who thought the grey was a little easier on the eye and looked a little more professional.

We'll conduct a poll on this most important question in coming days.

Anyway, we've resumed normal transmission at the OC. I'll slowly migrate/back-fill the slaggedoff stories over on the OC for archiving/searching purposes and at some point we'll phase out the slaggedoff site.

Again, my apologies for any inconvenience. If blogger ever answer any of my dozen emails demanding to know what happened, I'll let you know.

Game on.

PATRIOT GAMES: Labor Unity Executive Elections // Faction Fun For All The Family

This evening, the conclusion of the thrilling and enthralling Victorian ALP Labor Unity faction executive elections will occur. For the first time, executive members will be directly chosen by State Conference delegates so provide an accurate gauge of who has a certain level of support from branches and unions.

Usually, the LU executive has been more honoured in being ignored than complied with, elected by a voting system easily subjected to manipulation but the new voting system has led the big names of the group putting themselves forward this time with many working very hard to get elected so the results will be interesting.

Here are the results, many will interpret the tea leaves about them, we won't. All patriots.

■ Dr Henry Pinskier
■ Robin Scott MLA
■ Bill Shorten
■ Jeff Jackson
■ Adem Somyurek MLC
■ Cesar Melham
■ Nazih Elasmar MLC
■ Theo Theophanous MLC
■ Senator Steve Conroy
■ Robert Larocca
■ Wayne Nader
■ Fiona Richardson MLA
■ Soon-to-be Senator Jacinta Collins
■ Ian Blandthorn
■ Michael Donovan

Game on.

FINAL PROOF: All Bets Settled, We Are Getting Hotter

Asking questions about climate change, whether it's real, what it means, what the consequences are for us, what can be done if anything about it, whether there are higher priority environmental issues and so on could land you in prison if the Greens party extremists had their way.

And yet a sceptic patriot Andrew H has forwarded to us possibly the most incontrovertible proof of the global warming phenomenon.

We report. You decide.

Game on.

ATTACK ADS: Democrats Getting In On The Act

Are we witnessing the beginning of a golden age of attack ads in politics, with the democratisation of video production and distribution resources, courtesy of cheap and easy video editing software and sites like Youtube? I certainly hope so. Keep them coming.

Interesting to note also this effort from the Australian Democrats was based on last night's news and was sent to us earlier this morning.

Game on.

RUBBERY: Newspoll Massively Understating Greens Party Primary

It's become fashionable behind the Latte Curtain to disparage Newspoll, despite its long record of being pretty accurate. And indeed the newspaper that publishes its finding is I think without dispute the best "quality" newspaper in the nation.

We saw just how hot under the collar some comrades can get about the polls with Socialist Leftard Paul Erickson getting into fisticuffs over the incident with the son of one Australian journalist (Leo Shanahan) who had dared to suggest that the looming federal election might be more competitive than the already gloating Kevin07 team is hoping for.

So much as I dislike joining the criticism, it appears there is a major problem with Newspoll's methodology. The poll published today, which shows a big Labor lead also shows the Greens Party to be on a primary vote of three per cent.

This is clearly wrong. It - sadly - dramatically understates the level of support for the Greens party. At the last election, they received 7.2% of House of Representatives primary votes. Since then, led by pudgy tuxedoed and monied conductor Al Gore, an orchestra of complaint, manipulated science and sky-is-falling fear has played up an absolute storm about climate change. There is clearly an issue for us all to consider about carbon emissions and pollution generally, but the Greens Party and their fellow travellers have greatly succeeded in dominating public debate on these issues.

Does anyone really believe that after three years of this cacophony that the Greens lower house primary vote is going down?

I wish it would go down to zero, the Greens party has become little more than the Trojan horse for the extreme left. People like "Greens strategist" Stephen Luntz was in various ultra-left militant groups prior to joining the Greens. Their Victorian executive member Andrew Nette was a full-time employee (the last of them I gather) of the Communist Party of Australia as it lived off the last of its Moscow cash. They are an extreme left party marketed as environmentalist.

And yet anyone believing that their vote has halved since late 2004 is just as much of a nutter as they all are.

Indeed, the most recent Galaxy poll, also highly respected, and also published in News Limited publications, has the Greens at a far more likely and worrying 9% of the primary vote.

It appears Newspoll has understated the Greens primary ahead of several state polls as well. Clearly there's something going wrong with at least this aspect of their polling, and we understand that there is much concern about it within the company.

Please visit excellent resources at Greens-Liberal-Deal or Greenswatch to learn more about the Greens party menace.

Game on.

WETS' BET: Baillieu Forces Talking Up Stuart Eaton As New State Director

Informed Liberal sources have exclusively revealed to us that former Red Ted senior policy adviser and "dirt digger" Stuart Eaton is emerging as Leader Baillieu's favoured candidate to replace Julian Sheezel, the Victorian State Director of the Liberal Party.

Eaton left Baillieu's office after last year's crushing election loss but remains in close contact with his former boss. Eaton has been on the adviser merry-go-round for a long time, having also served as an adviser to the uninspiring Senator Kay Patterson before she was bumped off by an unimpressed PM.

Kroger-Costello folks are believed to be thoroughly unimpressed by Eaton and will oppose him vigorously.

Game on.

CLUELESS: New Judge Snubs Kids' Cake Gesture

New High Court judge, Susan Kiefel has been an uncontroversial appointment to the bench but certainly seems to lack some basic people skills.

In a display of arrogance and pomposity unrivalled since the times when the Bastille and Versailles were stormed by peasants angered by the policies of the French monarchy including Queen Marie Antoinette, the judge had the following rather ungracious interaction with Canberra school-girls excited about the appointment of another female judge:

Outside the court Justice Kiefel met a handful of well-wishing schoolchildren who held placards saying, "2/7 = a good start".

She also agreed to cut their cake - which featured models of the court's seven judges - though she refused a slice.

"They made an effort to come and I thought it was absolutely sweet," Justice Kiefel said.

"I don't have any children but I do know enough about children's cakes to leave them alone."

Just as well Australian judges don't have to run in elections.

Game on.

LANDED GENTRY: Rich Envirocrusader Revealed As Environmentally Sensitive Land Exploiter

Geoffrey Cousins doesn't approve of developments on properties he doesn't own. And yet he has an entirely different approach to development on his own land.

GREED IS GOOD
The filthy rich envirocrusader, now the darling of inner-city leftiste book buyers and environmental activists, is embroiled in an unseemly row over environmentally sensitive coastal land in Tasmania he wants to develop into housing.

Locals want the multi-millionaire to put his money where his Green mouth is by donating the land to the adjacent National Park.

It seems it's one law for Gunn's whose project would employ thousands and another law for land developer Cousins who probably only needs to build a couple of roads, put in connections, get an agent to throw up a sign and whatever and he's made millions. He's already sold off a chunk of the land to Dick Smith who plans to build a resort there.

Such hypocrisy.

THUG BULLY
He is indeed quite the charmless man, used to getting his own way by throwing his weight around, with the Australian Financial Review reporting on Cousins' past life as a CEO:

According to an account given to The AFR by one of those present during a particularly fiery Optus Vision board meeting, an adjournment was called to let the brawling players cool down. During the break, Optus Vision's chief executive, Geoff Cousins, is said to have walked around to Switkowski and said, "Listen, you f...ing p...k, if you say one more thing, I'll throw you out that window."

Game on.

MAT BRAT HIGH DRAMA: Monash Student Newspaper Censored By Left Brat Mat Hilakari

High drama at the Monash Student Association this afternoon as its Treasurer - a member of the Socialist Left faction and candidate for President at imminent elections - has ordered that their student newspaper Lot's Wife not be printed because he wants to check it for any potentially defamatory references to himself and his colleagues in the Socialist group Go!

Student organisations at Monash like the MSA receive the vast bulk of their funding from Australian taxpayers.

The newspaper is scheduled to be at the printer today. However Hilakari, whose brother is a part of the notorious LHMU controlled by the Socialist Left has refused to sign the print requisition form until the newspaper's elected editors Naomi Snell and Dara Conduit submit the paper to a group of student politicians on the Monash Student Executive so that they can establish whether there is anything 'potentially defamatory' in it. In other words, anything they don't like about themselves or indeed anything else they don't like. If only I could do that with The Age, much of it would be blank.

ABUSE OF POWER
Not that it's slowing him down, but Hilakari is acting completely outside his power, insiders say. He has no resolution of the Executive authorising him to withhold authorisation and no discretion in the matter, it is purely a formality, not a device to equip him with the power to direct elected editors.

He has refused a request to hold a meeting of the Executive on the issue as it appears the sleazy operator is uncertain of his "numbers" with bad girl President Zoe Edwards not at work today.

The issue has become a stand-off with the arrogant Hilakari refusing to change his mind and the elected newspaper editors saying he is failing in his duties as Treasurer and could be acting unlawfully by misusing his power to unilaterally and without valid excuse to withhold his permission for the printing of the publication.

Developing... (we'll be covering the Monash debacle in extensive detail tomorrow including the role of Labor Left barrister Tony Lang in censoring articles)

Game on.

DUTCH OVEN: Dutch Surrender Monkeys Create Huge Problem For Australia In Afghanistan

thanks to our Defence Correspondent, Corporal Punishment

Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson was in Washington and Kabul last week, talking tough to Australia's prevaricating Dutch partners in Afghanistan. His message was clear: if the Dutch withdrew their troops, Australia would not pick up the
slack, leaving open the possibility of Australia withdrawing our troops.

DUTCH LEAVE AUSSIES IN THE LURCH
But behind the scenes, some very different action was happening. We have learned that Australian troops have been called up at short notice to replace a Dutch mortar platoon supporting our troops which withdrew last week without warning.

Independent defence writer, Sasha Uzunov, reports that soldiers from Townsville based infantry battalion 2RAR, mortars platoon, have been called up for immediate deployment. The
30-strong platoon had been preparing to deploy to Timor in October (as a rifle platoon), but now will switch to Afghanistan.

DUTCH "ARROGANT BASTARDS"
The sudden Dutch departure will add to simmering Dutch-Australian tensions in Afghanistan. Tensions are running high - at least one soldier has declared Australian troops would like to shoot all the Dutch as they are arrogant bastards to work with.

It will also make our Defence Minster look like a dill. Only last week, Nelson told a group of Dutch MPs in Kabul: "We are not in a position to increase our numbers in Afghanistan and we won't and can't take the lead position in Tarin Kowt." His blunt message was: "The consequences of a Dutch withdrawal, if we can't find another partner, is that we would be far too exposed to continue."

But it seems Nelson is quietly ensuring he has a buck each way.

YOUTUBE EXPLAINED
The Youtube video is of an interview of Urlich Ladurner by Sasha Uzonov in Kabul back in May where he explains that Australians and Dutch forces were slow in establishing security in Uruzgan province.

Uzonov had written that in New Matilda that:

When I asked the Defence Minister if a rift had developed between Australian troops and the Dutch Army engineers they are serving alongside, over who was doing the most to secure Uruzgan, Nelson would not comment.

New Matilda reported:

Ladurner, who is the foreign editor of the German weekly Die Zeit and co-author with Gero von Randow of The Iranian Bomb, spent weeks as an embedded journalist with Dutch Army engineers in Uruzgan Province — at the Tarin Kowt base they share with Australian troops. ‘The Dutch and Australians are making a big effort but it is too slow in bringing stability to the province,’ Ladurner said. ‘The local people are not happy with the progress made. It is still not safe. The region is still wild.’

Developing...

MONDAY MADNESS: Max Gross Would Have To Be Crazy To Team Up With The Israel Bashing Left

LaTrobe Uni Jewish student activist Max Gross is believed to be "dancing with the devil" in political arrangements that will see him run in imminent LaTrobe student elections with notorious socialist groups with a record of fanatical anti-Israel and anti-semitic beliefs.

One insider told us that the colourful and eccentric young student believes that by running with Socialist Left and extreme left forces he has a much stronger chance of winning that if he hangs with political moderates.

DANCING WITH THE DEVIL
Gross recently failed in his bid to become President of the Australian Union of Jewish Students and is believed to be determined to win himself a spot on the LaTrobe Uni SRC even if it involves teaming up with those who praise Hamas, jihad and suicide bombings. The OC has been told by high ranking figures within AUJS that Gross will be "finished" if he proceeds with his plans to run with the extreme left.

The extreme left groups and are believed to be thoroughly amused to have duped the young man, ruthlessly using him for votes. One of the coalition partners with the Socialist Left group he plans to run with is the infamous hate-group Socialist Alternative which spews out anti-Israeli propaganda on a near-constant basis.

Max Gross seems to be a sincere supporter of Israel and moderately inclined. He organised a highly successful Israel Week at La Trobe University, which was very well received. He is the cousin of Zac Gross, a respected young moderate at Melbourne Uni. Only Max can explain why he is compromising himself by teaming up with leftards who hate Israel and are soft on terrorism. To be fair to him, he has contacted us about half a dozen times to inquire about the subject of the story, so we'll be giving him a right of reply should he wish to take it up.

As a postscript, one thing's for sure, this guy is truly amusing. In his persistent calls to the OC, I was keen to delay discussion until I'd written the story so we'd have something to talk about.

My social calendar was unusually full on the weekend and the site being hacked made it difficult to get everything done. But during these many calls, Max was very keen to know what we were writing about, I decided not to tell him until I'd finished it. His response? Oh is it about this (bad thing), that (private thing) or the other (some scandal). None of which I knew about previously.

Memo to Max: You are a patriot (probably) who has temporarily lost his way. Come back from the Dark Side and get someone to tell you how to deal with journalists. Telling them your secrets of the inner-most kind is far from the ideal.

Now stop this flirting with the lefties before you go blind.

Game on.

FOR FREEDOM: Liberty and Democracy Party to Hold Free Trade Rally At APEC

Sydneysiders of patriotism are encouraged to attend a Rally for Free Trade next Saturday morning organised by the Liberty and Democracy Party. Click here for more details.

ATTACK ADS: Parties Muscle Up In Election Negative Websites

The ALP have just launched Howard Facts, while the Liberals have been running Same Old Labor for a while.

Game on

IN HOT WATER: Greens Thank Liberals For Declining To Run In By-Election Deal of Sleaze

The Greens party's state by-election campaign is in crisis this morning as their federal leader Bob Brown blurted out thanks for their supposed Liberal opponents for pulling out of the contest in order to assist them.

The Greens have faced charges that they have entered into a Greens-Liberal-Deal which has a number of dodgy components because the Greens party have:

■ Voted with the Liberals 68% of the time, even voting down anti-nuclear proposals and tax cuts for hybrid cars;

■ Elected Liberal committee chairs;

■ Directed preferences to the Liberal party in outer suburban state seats in return for preferences from the Liberal party to the Greens party in inner suburban seats the Greens party were hopeful of winning;

■ Secretly taken cash from traditional Liberal donors;

■ Considered blocking ALP changes - if they were elected - to Workchoices, until Bob Brown reversed the position;

The ALP has revealed a Youtube ad which makes much of the Greens party's voting record, something that will sit very uncomfortably with their supporters.

BUSTED: Lawrence Money Guilty of Plagiarism

The Aged Lawrence Money - a convicted criminal - has been caught red-handed plagiarising week old material from the OC.

The below is from his gossip column published today:

TODAY Diary reaches in to the very heart of the Spring Street asylum to uncover the startling sartorial truth behind the new Brumby regime. Word is that school principal John Brumby has demanded his troops smarten up their dress code.

Lady MPs are to wear a more "business-like, corporate" style of garment. Gentlemen: ties in chamber, please, and tuck in your shirts!

Our source? Two disgruntled lady Labor MPs who were lamenting the draconian edicts in the ladies' loo at Parliament House. Happily, our snout happened to be in a cubicle at the time.

"They said that quite a few of the Labor ladies were upset," said our informant, suggesting that the likes of Judy Maddigan, Joanne Duncan, Kirstie Marshall and Marcia (sic) Thompson were among those who had favoured the "relaxed" look.

Diary suspects the tie regulation may be a problem for the likes of laid-back Steve Herbert, and as for shirt-tails: Craig Langdon struggled valiantly last week (note Parliament was sitting last week) but only succeeded about 50 per cent of the time.

It is not known how Brumby plans to punish repeat offenders. Keep them in after session? Make them write lines? ("I will tuck my shirt in. I will tuck my shirt in …")

Footnote: Lavatory cubicles are not the only rich source of information at Spring Street. "You hear all sorts of things on the staircase at Parliament House, too," says our insider. MPs have been warned.

GUILTY AS CHARGED
Compare the above with the OC's post on the 23rd of August:

A patriot has written in from a Parliamentary bunker and the second floor toilets to inform us of the latest Caucus carnage in Spring Street. Our informant reports:

School teacher Brumby reads the riot act to unruly pupils

Conversation between two female Labor members on Thursday - apparently "decisive action man" Brumby has upset a few female Labor members by demanding more business like/corporate dress style for all Labor members of Parliament.

Much discussion ensued regarding the challenges in complying with the school master's dress code for Judy Maddigan, Joanne Duncan, Kirsty Marshall and Marsha Thompson. All these ladies, to put it in the most kindly way possible, currently have individual, unique and relaxed dress styles, reflecting their personalities not a version of what passes for acceptable in the boring corridors of DTF (OC: The Department of Treasury and Finance)

Male members are to wear ties at all times in the chamber - this will cause severe difficulties for Steve Herbert. (OC: Is this because he hasn't figured out how to tie a knot yet or because I tie has not yet been invented long enough to wrap around his tree stump neck?)

The always splendidly and sartorially dressed Premier Brumby also insists that male members must tuck shirts in at all times - Craig Langdon valiantly struggled this week - only succeeeding 50% of the time.

Will the punishment be a thousand lines of "I must dress correctly, or face detention or a few swishes of the cane?" (OC: We can only hope)

RUMOURS: Nicola Roxon May Not Be On Labor Frontbench After Next Election

One of Labor's senior frontbenchers, Shadow Health Minister Nicola Roxon is understood to have all but decided not to contest a position in the ministry or shadow ministry after the next election.

Roxon is a member of the moderate and patriotic Labor Unity faction, although is considered quite left-wing by many observers and distinguished herself by bartering her vote in the one-vote margin Leadership election which saw her help elect Mark Latham to become Leader of the Opposition. In return for her vote, he agreed to make her Shadow Attorney-General. And to be fair, up until that point, she had done a serviceable job as Shadow Minister for Children.

LATTE LEFTY
Her political instincts in the sensitive A-G portfolio could be reasonably summarised as "All Latte All The Time". It has taken Queenslander Joseph Ludwig for Labor to have a politically savvy and astute Attorney-General spokesperson, who reflects to the views of most Labor supporters on issues like preventing terrorism, rather than the prevailing wisdom in lefty barristers' chambers. (Greetings to our many readers from various chambers, how do you find the time?)

Some have said that she will plans on being in Canberra for a long time and that she considers her young family a priority at the moment.

BARREL GIRL - MCMANUS SAID IT, I DIDN'T
Her opponents have speculated - probably not correctly - that she enjoys little support from Leader Kevin Rudd. Patriot Gerard McManus of the Herald-Sun pointed this out in an interesting article (off-line) on Saturday.

He wrote:

Mr Rudd is a hard task master and is known to be unhappy with the performance of some front-benchers. The body language of the recent launch of Labor's health policy said a great deal when Mr Rudd explained everything and took every follow-up question, and has give some inside Labor to question whether Nicola Roxon will have the same role after the election.

One Labor MP suggested that the launch was a setback for Ms Roxon, who was made to look like a barrel girl standing beside game show host Rudd.

(McManus' article is really very good so we'll try to obtain a digital copy of the whole thing for your edification)

Calling feminista Nicola a "barrel girl" might well be enough for patriot Gerard to wish he had been "sent away" for refusing to disclose his confidential sources to a court, once she catches up with him with some kind of sharp object in Canberra. That aside, it's certainly an insight into the confidence Ruddster has in his Health spokesperson. For all her faults, I cannot imagine him doing that when Ms Gillard was the Shadow Health Minister.

THE POSITIONING
There has been widespread speculation (previously reported on the OC) that Kevin Rudd would - if he wins - seize control of the ministerial selection process which is elected by the caucus. Or perhaps just as likely in our view, threaten factional leaders with this in order to get the outcomes he wants.

This could spell trouble for Roxon if she chose to contest, although an open ballot among her Victorian Right colleagues might not help her much either according to some. All of these factors - in additional to personal ones - are believed to be weighing on the ambitious Gellibrand MP's mind.

Labor insiders have revealed that her relinquishing her spot in Labor's front-bench team would facilitate the entry of the likes of Bill Shorten, the candidate for Maribyrnong and Mark Dreyfus, the candidate for the marginal seat of Isaacs.

Game on.

RACE ROW: Footballer Anti-Semite Awarded Prize

Simon Christian, the Ocean Grove footballer convicted for his role in a violent anti-semitic attack with his team-mates on Menachem Vorchheimer, has been awarded the "Best and Fairest" award by the Bellarine Football League.

The brother of the victim, who was set upon by the drunk Deakin University Economics student and his colleagues and subjected to racist taunts with Christian saying "Go Nazis", David Vorchheimer told the nation's most popular newspaper, the HeraldSun:

Mr Vorchheimer's brother, David, said yesterday the best and fairest award was an insult and the league had shown poor judgment.

"You've got to question the values and what you are trying to espouse and encourage," he said.

Simon Christian wants to move on from his mistake, made when very young. Unlike his colleagues, he was not involved in acts of violence, just words of hate. But surely, if he's continuing on, accepting prizes for being the "fairest" player when he's brought such disgrace on himself, his club and the football league, he hasn't learned much at all.

He should hand back his award, which while given as a result of his conduct on the field is certainly a reflection on the Bellarine Football League. The convicted criminal has been punished once for crime and at some point there should be forgiveness. But how can Mr Vorchheimer forgive when the perpertrator shows no contrition, just a desire to forget.

Game on.

PHOENIX: The OC Under Attack // Slaggedoff.com Our Temporary Home

Welcome to patriots who've come from the OC. Our sister site, slaggedoff.com have been kind enough to shut up shop so we could continue to spread the good news.

At this stage, we are uncertain as to the identity of those involved in hacking the OC's site of freedom but they can be certain we will do all we can to bring them to justice.

While that's been sorted out and the site restored, we'll be holding out here at slaggedoff. Normal OC transmission will be maintained all through today. We're not currently sure how long it will take for the OC to be back to normal but we'll do our best to keep everything going in our usual inimitable way.

Thank you for your patience. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

Game on.